Comment on Brenda Mandujano's post: Yep! Schools can get a reputation of closing kids into classrooms, teaching them an out-of-touch curriculum that is designed to fit standardized tests, or worse yet, indoctrinating them with political agendas. Community service projects can really serve to build a good rapport with the community.

Internships are a great way for students to apply theoretical knowledge and develop skills that can lead to career placement.   

Service learning helps a better interaction with the community. 

The on-site supervisors and the school's intern coordinator should always communicate openly about the progress of the students' weekly assignments and projects.

Internship supervisors play a significant role for the intern; they should clearly understand the supervisor's and the intern's responsibilities. Most importantly, they should identify professional-level duties and tasks of significant quality and quantity and clearly delineate the relationship of the internship to the educational program.

A successful match is also beneficial to the employer and the intern. An internship can build students' skills, allow them to explore careers, and provide them with career placement opportunities.

Internships can be an essential assessment activity for the ongoing improvement of academic programs and student successs.

I learned that service learning is a way to involve, engage, and make students socially responsible. Is part of student's moral development. I teach nursing in which students are involved on patient care. Those patients are not only in acute care facilities, but everywhere in the community, so they will look for ways to support those communities in need.

Service learning represents both a strategy to learn from specific communities and help those communities in need with education, follow up, communicating those community needs to corresponding aid programs. Students feel motivated to learn and act immediately afterwards.